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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2013
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Theresa M. Brown, Tucson, AZ (US);
Nedlaya Y. Francisco, Tucson, AZ (US);
Suguang Li, Tucson, AZ (US);
Beth A. Peterson, Tucson, AZ (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A request is received to perform a point in time copy operation from a source volume to a space efficient target volume. A controller copies data stored in a group of data storage units, from the source volume to a non-volatile storage, to preserve the point in time copy operation. A background process asynchronously copies the data from the non-volatile storage to the space efficient target volume to commit a physical point in time copy of the data from the source volume to the target volume.